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Ty's Take Religious communities around here have always been more than Sunday morning affairs, and this week shows why that matters. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is putting their Sunday service toward civic engagement, while SpiritFire is ramping up programming at the Inspirational Living Center, and you see in
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is at 45 percent containment as of Sunday, and that's progress worth noting on the plateau, but the news came with a hard reminder that fighting fire in these mountains costs more than sweat and equipment. A member of the fire
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both knew this valley long enough to watch it grow from something you could hold in your hand to something that keeps slipping through your fingers. The Bulletin's obits this week read like a roster of people
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 85° Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Sunny · Tonight 68° Partly Cloudy · Tuesday 90° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take There's a particular kind of accident that
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Ty's Take Road accidents that end with the injured party facing charges are usually the ones that stick with a community, and this one out of Raymondville won't be any different. When the person hurt in the wreck is the one law enforcement decides to prosecute,
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both passed this week, which means two more names coming down off the roster of people who knew this valley before the interstates got so busy, before the suburbs started creeping north from Las Cruces. That's how
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Ty's Take Summer's wrapping up fast, which means parents are running the back-to-school gauntlet again, and the county's making it easier by offering free vaccines at clinics around town. The State Fair's bringing in live music, the Wildcats are rolling
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Ty's Take A murder witness walking out on probation is the kind of outcome that settles different ways depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. The Rio Grande SUN reports it happened, which means it happened somewhere in this territory we cover,
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Ty's Take When a house fire and a shooting happen on the same stretch of street in west Billings, and the airshow crowds are still settling back into their routines downtown, you get a reminder that this city runs on two speeds at once. MetraPark fills with families
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Ty's Take The Golden Circle of Champions event on Saturday was the kind of thing that reminds you why these small towns hold together when everything else seems to be coming apart. Meanwhile, down in Creede they're dealing with a yearling bear pushed into town by
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Ty's Take When French artists show up to paint the basin and end up sketching unexplained lights in the sky, it says something about who we are and what sticks in people's minds about this place. We're caught between the practical and the mysterious,
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Ty's Take Road conditions around here have been rough enough that we've had more accidents than usual in just the past few days, from Raymondville to Southfork to right here in West Plains, and a couple of them serious enough to land folks in the hospital.